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OK, we're going to talk about the Dorian mode now. Our finger pattern that we learned that
we called minor. Going up the G string would give us G, A, B-flat with our second finger,
and then C and D. Now the way that these notes are derived and it gets a little complicated
in the explanation I don't want to dwell on that. But any scale, if you start on the second
note of a major scale, play the notes in that major scale going up you're going to have
the notes of the Dorian mode. For example if we play this G. G, A, B, C, D. Well if
we were to start on the second note we'll have A, B, C, D, E which would be the next
note in the G scale. But the essential thing that you want to remember is that in the Dorian
mode you're going to hear that minor quality. Instead of two whole steps, here's major,
you're going to have the whole step and a half step. So learn those note names G, A,
B-flat, C, D. And you'll find that already now you know five notes on this string G,
A, B-flat, B from our earlier scale, C and D.